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If you’re new to Yorkshire see what it has to offer on our Introduction page.

We have now added more than 1,000 places to our A to Y Gazetteer of Yorkshire. We've listed the cities and towns and now many of the villages, with links to pages providing more information or to pinpoint villages on our unique Yorkshire map.

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Harvest Festival in Malton

Malton celebrates all the best produce the Yorkshire late summer and early autumn has brought us this year at its Harvest Food Lovers Festival this Saturday and Sunday (October 5-6).

The foodie town at the heart of the Ryedale district will be filling its Market Place with around 100 stalls, chef demonstations, talks, tastings, live music, family fun and a sculpture trail. Stalls will be open from 9.00am on Saturday and from 10.00am on Sunday.

Find out more at the Malton Harvest Food Lovers Festival web pages.

Malton

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Book-lovers treat at Ilkley Literature Festival

King's Hall is one of the festival venues All Saints' Church hosts festival eventsIlkley Literature Festival provides a 17-day treat of more than 90 events in the Wharfedale town between Friday October 4 and Sunday October 20.

One of the best-loved festivals of its kind in the North of England, it includes digital events as well as live talks by poets, authors and writers on stage.

Events take place at several venues around Ilkley including Ilkley Playhouse, King's Hall, All Saints' Church, Ilkley Grammar School, Clarke Foley Centre and Ilkley Arts Studio. Providing just some of the inspiration this year are themes of "Democracies in Danger?", "Murder, they wrote", "in Verse", "A matter of Taste" and "Legacies".

Find out more at the

Ilkley Literature Festival website.

Ilkley

70th anniversary year for Yorkshire's newest National Park

The newest of Yorkshire's three National Parks celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park began its life on 16 November 1954, after a public inquiry in May that year, to become Britain's eighth National Park.

The park's original 684 square miles were originally within the boundaries of historic Yorkshire's West and North Ridings, but after those boundaries had themselves been frayed by Government changes, the park boundaries were also extended in 2016 from following the old county boundary to include areas of Lancashire and what was then Cumbria, now Westmorland and Furness. The National Park now stretches across 841 square miles.

Among the natural attractions to discover in the Yorkshire Dales are Yorkshire's mountain peaks, beautiful river valleys, attractive villages and some of the finest limestone scenery in the UK. We celebrate some of these in our latest selection of pictures on our Pictures page.

Yorkshire Dales Pictures

Overnight closures on M62 until end of October

This section of the M62 between Junctions 24 and 25 will have overnight closuresOvernight closures of sections of the M62 will be taking place in West Yorkshire until the end of October.

Carriageway resurfacing will be taking place on the four-mile stretch of motorway between Junction 25 at Clifton, the junction for Brighouse and north Huddersfield, and junction 24 at Ainley Top, the junction for Huddersfield and Elland. There are also plans to replace joints on part of the bridge at Junction 25.

The work will involve closing one carriageway or slip road at a time with work beginning with the westbound carriageway at Junction 25. Overnight closures will be between 8pm and 6am, involving traffic being diverted off the motorway when work on the carriageway is taking place.

A schedule of which carriageways are involved in the M62 closures near Huddersfield can be found on this page at National HIghways

Marvellous museums

Yorkshire has hundreds of marvellous museums celebrating the region's rich history, its transport, diverse industries and characters from Yorkshire whose names became known across the globe. Some of the museums are of world-class and national importance. We have a selection of some of the best in Yorkshire on our Museums page with links to their websites so that you can check for opening times. You will also find many more museums by looking up cities and towns in our Gazetteer.

Museums

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Yorkshire mixture

Here are links to a few favourite pages at Yorkshire.guide:

Cities Largest towns and cities Population Gazetteer Abbeys Castles Film locations Heritage Coast Heritage railways Highest mountains Historic Houses North Pennines North York Moors Museums Peak District Racecourses Seaside York Yorkshire Dales Yorkshire football Railway stations

On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at

If you’re from Yorkshire you will probably recognise our background picture as the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor, famous as the location of the Yorkshire dialect anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at". More on Ilkley.

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